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Windows PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) ASCII Armor Parser Vulnerability
White Papers PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a suite of encryption tools originally published in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann to enhance personal privacy. It has become the de facto standard for email encryption, winning numerous industry awards and spawning a variety...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PGP Creator: Surveillance Must Be Curbed
News Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption -- better known as PGP -- was in Italy this week for the InfoSecurity conference. As the inventor of the famous Pretty Good Privacy encyption tool, he faced a three-year-long investigation...
[January 23, 2002, 17:29]
PGP Encryption Defect Uncovered
News The flaw occurs in software that uses Pretty Good Privacy, a tool for scrambling email. Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, has been around for more than 10 years. Researchers claim to have detected a flaw in a popular email encryption technology that...
[August 12, 2002, 16:12]
PGP Corporation Sees Potential Of Deperimeterisation
News PGP Corporation owns the Pretty Good Privacy codebase -- originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a security system developed around cryptographic privacy and authentication.
[June 9, 2006, 13:40]
Network Associates Drops PGP Email Encryption
News The company began selling PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, to corporations in 1997 after it bought the software business from the technology's author, Phil Zimmerman. Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption...
[March 11, 2002, 9:12]
Using GnuPG
White Papers GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, is the open source equivalent to PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, which has been available for Windows, DOS, and some other operating systems for many years. It can be used to encrypt email messages and files, or to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy or PGP, the first generally distributed public key encryption system, has long wanted to give similar security to voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. One is where we protect what we own to protect our privacy and...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Issues Of Trust In Digital Signature Certificates
White Papers These include: X.509 standard Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), other PKI such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) and a Simple Distributed Secure Infrastructure (SDSI).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Introduction To Encryption And Digital Signatures
White Papers It briefly describes a package called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) which delivers this technology to desktop computer and it gives example of situations within universities where such technologies might be employed easily and with more difficulty.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Bug May Pose Risk To Encrypted Email
News GnuPG is a free replacement for the Pretty Good Privacy cryptographic technology. The problem lies in how certain email applications display messages signed using the GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG and GPG, the GnuPG group said in a...
[March 8, 2007, 9:15]
Crypto Flaw Allows Email Shenanigans
News Common encryption standards, such as Pretty Good Privacy, S/MIME, MOSS, Privacy Enhanced Mail and PKCS#7, have all incorporated the flaw. Just like people don't send mail that simply says, "No," people should not send email without context, said...
[June 27, 2001, 10:15]
Utility Computing Still A Hard Sell
News Sounds good on paper, but both software makers and customers have been slow and inconsistent in committing to the model, for reasons ranging from economics to privacy. People don't think much about the end-user agreement that comes with a perpetual...
[October 20, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft Devotees Speak Out
News Microsoft started pushing harder on resolving ongoing security problems following a January 2002 email that Gates sent employees encouraging them to focus more on privacy and reliability. Shaw, who used to work on security issues in the military...
[February 14, 2003, 7:50]
Encryption Flaws Present No Immediate Security Risk
White Papers On 17 August 2004, speakers at the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, California, stated that they have found potential indications of vulnerabilities in Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1), a hash algorithm widely used in encryption programs such...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Encryption Facility R2 For Z/OS Performance
White Papers The OpenPGP standard was originally derived from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS exploits the existing strengths of the mainframe and the IBM z/OS operating system. It is a host-based facility that leverages existing...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PGP Pioneer Pushes VoIP Encryption
News Phil Zimmermann gave free email encryption to the world more than a decade ago in the form of software called Pretty Good Privacy. Or if you prefer, fewer entities that can betray your privacy. Now Zimmermann, who became an instant Internet hero in...
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
PGP Inventor Downplays Encryption Flaw
News Neither Zimmermann, who created the original Pretty Good Privacy program in 1991, nor engineers at Network Associates, which currently owns the PGP trademark, were able to get more details from the researchers.
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
US Report: Net Music Will Change
News If you are a customer right now, MP3 is the only safe solution," said Hoffman, who is also a founder of encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy Inc. Observers applauded the move. This will put adult supervision in to what has been the Wild, Wild West...
[December 16, 1998, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Net Music Will Change
News If you are a customer right now, MP3 is the only safe solution," said Hoffman, who is also a founder of encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy Inc. On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
Lawsuit Opens New Can Of Worms For Microsoft
News In January 2001, Microsoft kicked off its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, a companywide move to increase the security of its products, better handle customer privacy, and repair the giant's tarnished image in those areas.
[October 7, 2003, 11:50]
